Medicine: Doctor in the House

Early one morning last week, in East Orange, N.J., four-year-old Tommy
Stanley got hold of half an orange. He tried to swallow it, got it
stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on
the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one in the house
Tommy's uncle. Dr. Thomas A. Stanley (a postgraduate surgery student)
saw that Tommy was strangling. He seized a kitchen carving knife; there
was no time to sterilize it, nor for an anesthetic. While Papa and Mama
held Tommy flat on the living room couch, Dr. Stanley swiftly cut...